Packed with many impressive outdoor activities, Asheville welcomes tourists who love mountains, waterfalls, beautiful overlooks, and remarkable architecture. This lovely city in North Carolina has a monument to the Gilded Age, fantastic camping spots, hiking trails, and numerous recreational opportunities for guests. It is a fabulous tourist destination with great restaurants, boutiques, craft breweries, and national treasures.
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Asheville is a great destination for all travelers, whether you prefer self-guided tours or enjoy guided group tours. Explore Asheville's vibrant downtown area, visit the famous Biltmore Estate, swim in the Pisgah National Forest, enjoy the exhibits at the North Carolina Arboretum, connect with nature at the Western North Carolina Nature Center, play retro arcade games at Asheville Pinball Museum, and fill your heart with new emotions, joyful moments and long-lasting memories.
The following are just a few of the many things to do while in Asheville, North Carolina:
One of the main tourist attractions in Asheville, NC, the Biltmore Estate, is a house of historical significance built for George Washington Vanderbilt II in the 1890s. This Châteauesque-style mansion is the largest privately owned house in the US. It still belongs to the Vanderbilt family and is open to the public, letting over a million visitors annually adorn hundreds of its rooms, antiques, furniture, artworks, and beautiful architecture and feel the spirit of the French Renaissance era in North Carolina.
Explore the breathtaking cascading waterfalls, hike miles of trails, and enjoy camping, fishing, swimming, rock climbing, horse riding, and boating in the Pisgah National Forest. This beautiful area covers over 500,000 acres, providing many wonderful recreational opportunities to Asheville guests and residents of North Carolina.
Visit the peaceful natural escape, the North Carolina Arboretum, home to 65 acres of gorgeous cultivated gardens with outstanding bonsai collections, interesting exhibits, hiking & biking trails, fun outdoor activities for children, and more.
The Western North Carolina Nature Center is home to endangered red wolves, red pandas, black bears, and other wild and domestic animals of the Southern Appalachians. Come here to connect with local nature, explore plants and animals, learn the history of different species, and more.
Fans of video games from the 80s and 90s can attend Asheville Pinball Museum, which offers 70 restored pinball machines and classic video games. It is located in the central downtown area of Asheville, NC.
View the most amazing century-old examples of traditional and modern crafts of the Southern Appalachians in the Folk Art Center, housing three great galleries, shops, and a library in East Asheville.
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